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CENTRE FOR RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES

FORTY THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006

European Research Institute The University of Birmingham

Edgbaston Birmingham

B15 2TT

Telephone 0121-414-6346 Fax 0121-414-3423

httpwwwcreesbhamacuk

2

CENTRE FOR RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES Director Professor of Russian Economic Studies JM Cooper BScEcon (Bath) PhD

Deputy Director Kataryna Wolczuk MLaw (Gdansk) MSocSc PhD Ukrainian Studies

Professor of Central South-East European Politics Judy Batt BSocSc PhD Central and East European Politics (leave of absence from September 2003) Senior Fellow and Emeritus Professor RW Davies BA (Lond) PhD Emeritus Professor of the Political Economy of Russia and Eastern Europe P Hanson MA (Cantab) PhD Emeritus Professor of Russian History Maureen P Perrie MA (Edin) MA (part-time) Reader in Soviet and Russian History Dr Deema Kaneff PhD Adelaide (from August 2007) EA Rees BA York PhD History (on leave of absence from September 1999 Professor European University Institute Florence) Senior Lecturers TJ Haughton BSc (Econ) (Lond) MA (Lond) Dip (Westminster) PhD (Lond) Politics of Central and Eastern Europe JR Smith BA (Oxon) MA (Lond) PhD (Lond) Twentieth Century Russian History Lecturers Tanya Lipatova BA (St Petersburg) MA (St Petersburg) Tutor in Russian Language JB Morris BA (Lancaster) MA (Lond) PhD (Sussex) (from September 2005) Dr Natasha Rulyova DJ White BA (Wolverhampton) MA PhD Russian Politics Jelena Williams-Pozdnjakova BA (Tartu Estonia) MA (Tartu Estonia) Dip (Moscow Pushkin Institute) City amp Guilds 9284 ESOL Tutor in Russian Language Part-Time Visiting Lecturers Mariola Senior Research Fellow DL Averre BA (Manchester) PhD (Manchester) Galina M Yemelianova MA (Moscow) PhD (Moscow) Research Fellows N Copsey BA (Hons) (Oxon) MA (College of Europe) DPhil (Sussex) (from April 2007) Melanie J Ilič BA (Manchester) MPhil PhD (part-time) Dr A Titov PhD (Lond) (from October 2005)

3 Honorary Professor Sir Rodric Braithwaite LLD MA(Cantab) GCMG Honorary Senior Lecturers D Adshead BA Mlitt FIL M Pushkin BA (Cantab) Honorary Senior Research Fellows C Beauman BA (Cantab) MA (Columbia) Professor MJ Bradshaw BSc MA (Calgary) PhD (British Columbia) FRGS CM Davis BA (Harv) MSA (George Washington) PhD (Cantab) NJ Dunstan MA (Cantab) PhD (Sheff) Professor M Harrison BA (Cantab) DPhil (Oxon) Professor MR Hill BSc (CNAA) MSc PhD Professor S Malle DottScPol (Rome) PhD (Calif) J Mullen MA (Cantab) Professor DM Nuti DottLegg (Rome) MA PhD (Cantab) Elena Omelchenko MA (Moscow) PhD (Moscow) Professor R Sakwa BA (Lond) PhD Honorary Research Fellows D Allan BSocSc MBE G Andrusz BSocSc PhD JD Barber BA PhD (Cantab) MJ Berry BA (Lond) Russian for Social Scientists Elena Denezhkina Dip Econ (Kiev) PhD (Leningrad) Linda Edmondson BA (York) MA (Sus) DipRuss (Sur) PhD (Lond) Elizabeth A Edginton BA (York) MLitt (Strath) PGCE (Leic) PhD Culture and Society in Eastern Europe Erica Richardson BA MSocSc PhD A Rimmington BSc (Leic) DipSocSc PhD Hildegunde Royle MA (Cologne) J-P Smith BA (Oxon) JN Westwood BCom MA PhD (Montreal) Professor SG Wheatcroft BA (Keele) PhD Sarah Whitmore BA (Staffs) MSocSc PhD Associate Members A Campbell BA (Bristol) PhD (Brunel) International Development Dominique Moran International Development DJB Shaw BA PhD (Lond) School of Geography and Environmental Sciences AW Sutton BA DipEdPsych The National Institute of Conductive Education Secretaries Tricia A Carr Marea B Arries


FORTY SECOND ANNUAL REPORT 20052006

4 CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ____________________________________________________ 5

CONFERENCES AND EXTERNAL PRESENTATIONS ___________________ 6 In Birmingham ____________________________________________________________ 6 Elsewhere in UK ___________________________________________________________ 7 Overseas _________________________________________________________________ 9

BOARDS AND COMMITTEES _______________________________________ 12

RESEARCH _______________________________________________________ 13 History __________________________________________________________________ 13 Economics _______________________________________________________________ 16 Science Technology and Industry ___________________________________________ 16 Politics and Security Studies ________________________________________________ 16 Sociology and Cultural Studies ______________________________________________ 18 Geography _______________________________________________________________ 19 Russian Language Literature and Music _____________________________________ 20

EXTERNAL GRANTS _______________________________________________ 20

PUBLICATIONS ___________________________________________________ 20 Books and Articles published by Members Associate Members and Honorary ______ 20 Research Staff of the Centre ________________________________________________ 20 Birmingham Slavonic Monographs __________________________________________ 26 Palgrave-CREES Series Studies in Russian and East European History and Society _ 26

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS _____________________________________ 26 Completed _______________________________________________________________ 26 In Preparation ____________________________________________________________ 26

SEMINARS ________________________________________________________ 29 The Birmingham Russian History Seminars ___________________________________ 29 Current Affairs Seminar ___________________________________________________ 29 ERI Graduate Seminar Series _______________________________________________ 31 Russian Films ____________________________________________________________ 32 Russian Television ________________________________________________________ 32

OTHER PUBLIC OUTPUT __________________________________________ 32

ANNUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE ________________________________ 32

TRAVEL AND VISITS ______________________________________________ 33 Visits by Centre Staff Associate and Honorary Members ________________________ 33

PRIZES AWARDED TO STUDENTS __________________________________ 34

APPOINTMENTS AND PERSONALIA ________________________________ 34

5 INTRODUCTION Throughout 2005-6 CREES continued to scale the peaks of success It reached a particularly challenging summit when we secured substantive additional funding for research on Russia and Eastern Europe During 2005-6 CREES became a founding member of the Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) - a major innovative collaboration between UCL Oxford and Birmingham to fulfil the UKs strategic commitment to the study of the region Rather pleasingly HEFCEAHRCESRC awarded CEELBAS pound56m under the major strategic initiative for investment in language-based area studies A consortium comprising SSEES (UCL) REES (Oxford) and CREES will work closely with a network of partners at the Universities of Bath Cambridge Kent Manchester Sheffield Warwick and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London to develop multi-disciplinary language-based research capacity around key research themes It will provide a programme of postgraduate scholarships postdoctoral fellowships mid-career training workshops and conferences as well as engagement with the user community and international networks As part of CEELBAS CREES offers a number of PhD scholarships and two Research Fellows (first on Polish foreign policy and second on the economies of Central and Eastern Europe for three and two years respectively) will be appointed Professor Julian Cooper is Co-Director of CEELBAS at CREES and thus a member of the Management Board The success of winning the CEELBAS award not only reconfirms CREESrsquo place on the UK map ndash it also validates the continued worth of Area Studies The need to understand developments in Central and Eastern Europe - in areas such as migration cultural identity health energy politics economic integration and democratisation ndash has increased rather than diminished as events in the region fifteen years after the collapse of communism continue to perplex The opportunity to replenish our cadres during 2005-6 was well taken We are pleased to announce the appointment of Deema Kaneff to the post of Reader she will be starting on 1 August 2007 Dr Kaneff has been based at the renowned Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle where she has conducted anthropological research on the political and economic consequences of reforms in Eastern Europe Also Dr David White has been made a permanent member of staff as Lecturer in Russian Politics Having completed his PhD in CREES David taught at CREES for several years We warmly congratulate them on their appointments and welcome them to our fold On a sad note in March 2006 we lost a long standing associate of CREES Dr Derek Watson who passed away after a short illness Derek has been a devoted researcher on Stalinist Russia and in 2005 published Molotov A Biography (Palgravemacmillan) His untimely death was a blow to us all CREES has been privileged to benefit not only from high quality research by its current staff but also by honorary staff thereby confirming our role as a UK hub for research on Russia and Eastern Europe Achievements of individual former members of staff include the publication of The Cambridge History of Russia vol I From Early Rusrsquo to 1689 edited and co-authored by Professor Emeritus Maureen Perrie which was published in the summer 2006 In 2005-6 CREES strengthened its teaching provision Thanks to the launch of a new undergraduate programme European Politics Society and Economy (EPSE) initiated by the head of department (Cillian Ryan) in the lsquonewrsquo ERI our undergraduate numbers on a number

6 of CREES modules have received a healthy boost At the postgraduate level the seal of approval of our teaching was conferred by the renewed recognition of our MA and PhD in Russian and East European Studies during the 2005 Recognition Exercise conducted by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) In light of the above I would like to offer my sincere thanks to all CREES staff members students and lsquosympathisersrsquo for the ongoing commitment and hard work for the continued prosperity of CREES during 2005-6 Kataryna Wolczuk February 2007 TEACHING Dr Morris developed a new module on lsquoVisual Culture and Mass Media in Russiarsquo for final year undergraduates covering all aspects of Russian visual culture lubok icons painting film and television CONFERENCES AND EXTERNAL PRESENTATIONS In Birmingham Professor Cooper gave a talk on lsquoRussia Ukraine and Europersquo in March to the Britain-Russia Society Dr Haughton together with Michelle Pace and Nicola Smith gave an ERI Seminar on lsquoAnalyzing the Impact of EU Membership on Small States the cases of Slovakia Ireland and Malta comparedrsquo in December 2005 Professor Perrie gave a talk entitled lsquoStalin the Ivan the Terrible of the Twentieth Centuryrsquo to the British-Russian Society in the Midlands September 2006 Dr David White gave a presentation to FCO Chevening Scholars on lsquoRussia and Democracyrsquo in January and in February he co-organised the Political Studies Association Communist and Post-Communist Conference where he delivered a paper on lsquoResponding to Electoral Failure Where Now for Political Opposition in Russiarsquo In January-March 2006 Dr Yemelianova gave a series of lectures on post-Soviet Islam within the Chevening course in Sharia and Governance run by the Department of Theology at the University of Birmingham Associate Members In February Dr Denezhkina and Dr Campbell organised the visit of a delegation from the Ukraine Ministry of Economy and Lviv Oblast on the topic of regional development policy The delegation visited the Department of Trade and Industry Advantage West Midlands Birmingham City Council and the Welsh Development Agency The visit was funded by DFID as part of the Lviv Development Project Also in February Dr Denezhkina and Dr Campbell received a delegation from the government and municipalities of Kaliningrad Oblast looking at regional development in the West Midlands and London The visit was funded by the European Union Kaledu project In May Dr Campbell organised the visit of a Russian governmental delegation consisting of senior representatives of the Russian Presidential Administration State Duma Council of the Federation and the Ministry of Regional Development The delegation visited the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in London the

7 Government Office of the West Midlands Birmingham City Council and the Welsh Assembly The theme of the study tour was performance indicators in sub-national government and was funded by the Council of Europe Elsewhere in UK The Annual Conference of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) took place at Fitzwilliam College University of Cambridge in April at which several members of the Centre gave talks including Professor Cooper on lsquoCan the Russians Compete in the Global Economy apart from Energyrsquo Professor Hanson on lsquoRussian Economic Performance and Prospectsrsquo at a panel he organised and chaired on lsquoRussian Competitivenessrsquo Dr Ilič on lsquoSoviet Women and Civil Defence in the 1930srsquo who convened and chaired the panel on lsquoWomen and the Defence of the Soviet Union in the 1930srsquo Dr Morris on lsquoThe Festival of the Heart Verka Serdiuchkarsquo Dr Shaw on lsquoThe Landscape Tradition in Russian Environmental Thoughtrsquo Professor Cooper gave a presentation in September at an Oxford University Continuing Education day school on lsquoPutinrsquos Russiarsquo and in December he acted as a speaker on a postgraduate training Workshop on Interdisciplinary Area Studies (ESRC and AHRC) at St Antonyrsquos College Oxford Julie Elkner presented a paper entitled lsquoThe Russian Security Apparatus and Civil Society Assessing the Recent British Spy Scandal in Moscowrsquo to the Intelligence Seminar Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge in February Philip Hanson participated in the Oxford Analytica International Conference at Christ Church Oxford as a member of the RussiaCIS panel speaking on lsquoThe Russian Economyrsquo in September and in November he organised and chaired a round-table at the Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies London on lsquoRussian Economic Prospects Back on Track after Yukosrsquo In January 2006 at the Chatham House London International Economics Programme seminar on Emerging Markets he gave a talk on lsquoMarket Development and Risks in Russiarsquo and at the Foreign Policy Centre conference on lsquoLaunching the G8 Scorecardrsquo in London he was one of three speakers on the Centrersquos assessment of Russia as a member of the G8 In June he was invited to lecture John Smith 2006 Memorial Fellows [from CIS countries] as part of their Academic Programme in Edinburgh In September 2006 at a Foreign and Commonwealth Office conference in London on lsquoRussian Gas What are the Risksrsquo he delivered a paper on lsquoGas in the Russian Economyrsquo and at a conference on lsquoThe Transformation of State Socialism System Change Revolution or Something Elsersquo at the Centre for International Studies Cambridge he gave a paper on lsquoThe European Unionrsquos Influence on the Development of Capitalism in Central Europersquo In November Dr Haughton presented a talk on lsquoFrom Black Sheep to Star Pupil Party Politics in Slovakia since Independencersquo at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge and in December he gave a seminar presentation on lsquoFrom ldquoBlack Sheeprdquo to ldquoStar Pupilrdquo to ldquoPace-Setting Peripheryrdquo Slovakia and the EUrsquo at the Centre for Democracy Studies Oxford Brookes University In April Dr Haughton organised a workshop at University College London on lsquoTaking Stock Assessing the Impact of the EU on Slovakia During the First Two Years of Membershiprsquo Mr Robert Hornsby gave a talk on lsquoNetworks Against the Stage Soviet Authoritiesrsquo Attitudes and Policies toward Dissent in the Khrushchev Erarsquo at a conference at Manchester University on lsquoNetworks and Hierarchies in the Soviet Provincesrsquo in September 2006

8 Mr Edwynn Graystone attended a postgraduate interdisciplinary symposium entitled lsquoBelonging and Otherness - Identities Cultures and Boundariesrsquo organised by the Historical Studies Postgraduate Forum of the University of Birmingham and held at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford in September 2006 where he gave a paper entitled lsquoRussian National Identity in the Later Years of the Time of Troubles (1610-13)rsquo Dr Morris delivered a paper on lsquoEffect over Effectiveness in Russian Advertisingrsquo at a Conference on lsquoThe Mass Media in post-Soviet Russiarsquo at the University of Surrey in April Professor Perrie read a paper entitled lsquoDynastic Restoration or Cultural Revolution The Reign of the First False Dmitrii 16056rsquo to the Centre for Russian Studies seminar SSEESUCL in October 2005 She talked about lsquoIvan the Terriblersquo to the Hertfordshire Branch of the Historical Association in Welwyn Garden City in November 2005 Dr Titov gave a presentation on lsquo1961 Party Program and the XXII Congress The Regional Dimensionrsquo at the lsquoNetworks and Hierarchies in the Soviet Provincesrsquo workshop at the University of Manchester in September 2006 Dr White delivered a lecture on lsquoPolitical Opposition to Putinrsquos Regimersquo at a Day School on lsquoPutinrsquos Russiarsquo held at Oxford University Department for Continuing Education in October In February he gave a seminar presentation on lsquoStaying Alive The Trials of Russian Liberalismrsquo Centre for Democracy Studies Oxford Brookes University Dr Yemelianova gave a lecture on Islamic identity within the MA course in European identities at the University of Leicester in February and in March she delivered a lecture on lsquoIslam in the former USSRrsquo within an MA course on Conflict and Violence at Kings College London Also in March she presented a paper entitled lsquoThe Muslim Caucasusrsquo at an International Anthropological Conference on lsquoEthnic and Religious Communities in the Caucasusrsquo at the London Warburg Institute and in June she participated in a workshop on Globalisationrsquos New Challenges by speaking on lsquoIslam and Social Conflict in Russiarsquo at Chatham HouseMonash University London Honorary Senior Lecturers Michael Pushkin presented a paper entitled lsquoldquoFarewell to the Microphonerdquo the Sixties in the Poetry of Andrei Voznesenskyrsquo as part of the seminar series lsquoRe-imagining the Thawrsquo at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies London in November Honorary Senior Research Fellows Silvana Malle ended her mandate with the OECD in July 2005 and resumed thereafter her job at the University of Verona as Professor of International Trade and Development and Applied Macroeconomics Silvana Malle chaired a roundtable on the lsquoRussian Economyrsquo with the participation of Julian Cooper Bill Tompson Rudiger Ahrendt (OECD) Barry Ickes (Pennsylvania University) and Anders Aslund (Carnegie) at the World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) which was held at Humbolt University Berlin in August Silvana Malle convened and chaired a panel on lsquoBRICs on the Rise How well based For how longrsquo at the 9th Bi-Annual Conference of European Association for Comparative Economic Studies University of Brighton in September at which she also gave a paper on lsquoThe Challenge of the New Emerging Markets Brazil Russia India and Chinarsquo and Julian Cooper gave a paper on lsquoRussia as a BRIC Only a Dreamrsquo

9 Silvana Malle delivered a lecture on the lsquoNew Emerging Economies Brazil Russia India and Chinarsquo in Italian at the Conference Verona nel Mondo organised by the Chamber of Commerce of Verona together with the University of Verona in March She also gave a lecture on the Economic Perspectives of Russia at the Confartigianato of Verona in May She was also invited by the Italo-Russian Chamber of Commerce of Milan to deliver a one-day course on the economic transformation in Russia to managers and economic operators in October In March she spoke on the Macroeconomic performance of China at the University of Pavia the paper is forthcoming in the Italian publication Il Politico first issue of 2007 Honorary Research Fellows Dr Richardson presented a paper entitled lsquoCooperation for Health Promotion Practical Barriers to Working in Russiarsquo at a one-day seminar on lsquoRussia and the EU ndash the Relationship During Putinrsquos Second Presidency in Multilateral and Bilateral Contexts Finland UK and Russiarsquo at The Finnish Institute London in December Dr Whitmore delivered a lecture on lsquoRussian-Ukrainian relations since the Orange Revolutionrsquo as part of a day seminar on lsquoPutinrsquos Russiarsquo at the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education in October 2005 and in April she gave a seminar presentation on lsquoEurope and Ukrainersquos 2006 Parliamentary Electionsrsquo at the Wider Europe Seminar at the University of Sussex In May she gave a guest lecture entitled lsquoThe Orange Revolution and the Future of the Rule of Law in Ukrainersquo to The Law Society London and in July she presented a paper on lsquoShow-dogs or Watchdogs Parliamentary Oversight in Russiarsquo at the Seventh Workshop of Parliamentary Scholars and Parliamentarians at Wroxton College (Oxon) Also in July she presented a talk on lsquoUkrainersquos Orange Revolution Contexts and Consequencesrsquo as part of the Oxford University Summer Programme Lecture Associate Members Dr Shaw presented a paper on lsquoThe Translation and Publication of Bernhard Vareniusrsquo Geographia Generalis in Russia 1718rsquo at the Annual Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth Century Russia in Hoddesdon in January 2006 and in May he gave a paper on lsquoMapmaking in Russia before Peter the Great the Book of the Great Maprsquo at the RGSIBG Annual Conference Royal Geographical Society London Overseas The Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies took place in Salt Lake City Utah in November where Phil Hanson gave a paper on lsquoThe Economic Consequences of the Yukos Affairrsquo Dr Morris gave a paper on lsquoNational Identity in Russian Advertising Tobacco and Beerrsquo Dr Averre presented a paper on lsquoThe Common Space of External Security Source of Problems or Opportunitiesrsquo at a conference on lsquoThe EU-Russia Agenda Four Common Spacesrsquo at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs Helsinki in November 2005 and in April he delivered a paper entitled lsquoStatus and Prospects for Non-Proliferation in the Bio-Sectorrsquo at the International Working Group (IWG) Meeting on lsquoRefocusing on Non-Proliferation Objectives in the RNCs by Strengthening Science Commercialisation and Global Partnership Redirection Programmesrsquo in Como Italy In AugustSeptember he gave a presentation on lsquoPatching up a Threadbare Partnership The EU-Russia Common Space of External Securityrsquo at the UACES 36th Annual Conference and 11th Research Conference on lsquoExchanging ideas on Europe 2006rsquo at the University of Limerick and later in September he presented a paper on lsquoA Paradigm Change in Bioproliferation Preventionrsquo at a conference in Como Italy on lsquoCooperation on Bio-Initiatives in Russia and the NIS Toward a True Partnershiprsquo

10 Odeta Barbullushi postgraduate student presented the paper lsquoThe Bearable Lightness of Stability Continuities and Discontinuities in Albanian Foreign Policy in the post-Kosovo Periodrsquo at the ASN Globalization Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Conference Belgrade in September 2006 In December Professor Cooper spoke at the Alpbach Forum Conference on lsquoRussia as EUrsquos Strategic Partnerrsquo in Vienna In July he participated in a roundtable on the Russian economy chaired by Silvana Malle together with Bill Tompson Rudiger Ahrendt (OECD) and Anders Aslund (Carnegie) at the World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) which was held at Humbolt University Berlin Professor Hanson co-presented with Dr Elizabeth Teague a paper on lsquoPolitical Capitalism in Russiarsquo at the conference on lsquoVarieties of Capitalism in the Post-Communist Worldrsquo at the University of Paisley in September and in October he delivered a paper on lsquoRussian Economic Performance and Prospectsrsquo as an invited speaker to NATO Economic Council in Brussels In February he was invited to NATO in Brussels to participate in a brainstorming session on developments in Russia In June at Hitotsubashi University Tokyo at the annual conference of the Japan Association for Comparative Economic Studies he gave a keynote lecture on lsquoThe Future Tasks of Comparative Economicsrsquo he also gave a paper on lsquoRussian Economic Performance and Prospectsrsquo at the Kyoto Institute of Economic Research Kyoto and delivered a seminar paper on lsquoThe European Unionrsquos Influence on the Development of Capitalism in Central Europersquo to the Economics Department seminar at Hititsubashi University Tokyo Dr Haughton gave a talk on lsquoldquoSocialno-demokratizaciardquo strany Smer-socialna demokracia v horizonte volieb 2006rsquo at Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Bratislava Slovakia in November 2005 and in December he spoke on lsquoConditionality Enlargement and Membership Slovakia and the EUrsquo at the British Ambassadorrsquos Residence Bratislava and also organized a workshop in Bratislava on lsquoForeign Policy and Slovakia in Comparative Perspectiversquo as part of the Leverhulme Trust funded project at which he and Darina Malova delivered a paper on lsquoSlovakiarsquos Integration Strategy in Comparative Perspectiversquo In April-May he delivered a seminar on lsquoWhen and How Does the EU Make a Difference Accession and Conditionality in Central and Eastern Europersquo at the Dubrovnik Seminar on Divided Societies Dubrovnik Croatia Jelena Obradovic postgraduate student gave a paper entitled lsquoTrauma and Identity Understanding War Crimes from a Serbian Perspectiversquo at the ASN Globalization Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Conference Belgrade Serbia in September In October she delivered a presentation on lsquoThe uses of the Kosovo Mythrsquo at the 7th Finnish Balkan Colloquium lsquoFinns in the Balkansrsquo at the Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki and also spoke on lsquoRatko Mladic or Europe War Crimes Identity and the Serbian Politics of Mythrsquo at the European Identities Conference also at the Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki In May she gave presentation on lsquoTolerance and Prejudice in Belgrade Young People and their Constructs of Othersrsquo at the Releasing Indigenous Multiculturalism through Education Project Workshop in Subotica Serbia Professor Perrie presented a paper (in Russian) entitled lsquoPopular Opinion and Rumours about the Tsar (1630s-50s)rsquo to a plenary session of the International Conference on lsquoSociety State and Supreme Power in Medieval and Early Modern Russiarsquo dedicated to the centenary of the birth of Academician LV Cherepnin organised by the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and held in Moscow NovDec 2005 In September 2006 she presented a paper (in Russian) entitled lsquoThe First English Travellers on the Lower Volga (in the second half of the 16th century)rsquo to the History section of the International Conference lsquoModernisation and

11 Tradition the Lower Volga as a Crossroads of Culturesrsquo dedicated to the centenary of the birth of Academician DS Likhachev held at Volgograd State University Dr Smith contributed a paper entitled lsquoThe Soviet Orphans The Historical Roots of the Transdniester Nagorny Karabakh Abkhaz and South Ossetian Conflictsrsquo at the International Conference on lsquoComparative Institutional Transformations and Institutional Design in the Post-Soviet Regionrsquo organised by the Eurasia Study Group and held in Yerevan Armenia in May In July he was invited to speak at a conference on European Integration organised by the European Union Delegation to Armenia in Yerevan where he gave a talk on lsquoThe Return of the Referendum Self-Determination International Organisations and Disputed Territories in the South Caucasus and Moldovarsquo Dr Titov delivered a guest lecture on the lsquoIntroduction to Lev Gumilevrsquos Life and Thoughtrsquo at a seminar on lsquoRussian Philosophy and History of Thoughtrsquo at the Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki in April Dr Wolczuk was invited to give papers at a conference on lsquoThe Slavic Triangle Between the EU and Eurasiarsquo at the Munk Centre for International Studies University of Toronto in January and at a conference on lsquothe EU and the Eastern Neighbours Democracy and Stabilisation without Accessionrsquo organised by the Instituto Affari Internazionali and Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale in Rome in May In May 2006 she also acted as a discussant at an Expertsrsquo roundtable on lsquoFuture of EU-Ukraine Relations after the Parliamentary Electionsrsquo organised by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Brussels In November she made a presentation on lsquoConstitutional Reforms in Ukrainersquo at a conference organised by the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Slovak Foreign Policy Association Dr Yemelianova presented a paper on lsquoIslamic Radicalisation in Muslim Eurasiarsquo at the XV Economic Forum in Krynica Poland in September 2005 and in SeptemberOctober she delivered a presentation on lsquoYoung People and Radical Islam in Southern Russiarsquo at a RIME Workshop on lsquoYouth and the Problems of Ethnic and Religious Extremismrsquo in Lazarevskoe Russia Honorary Senior Research Fellows Professor Mark Harrison presented a paper on lsquoThe Economics of World War I A Comparative Quantitative Analysisrsquo with Stephen Broadberry (Warwick) at the annual meeting of the Economic History Association in Toronto in September 2005 and in August 2006 he gave a presentation on lsquoCorrelates of Mobilization in the Two World Warsrsquo with Jari Eloranta (Appalachian State University) at the XIV International Economic History Congress in Helsinki Honorary Research Fellows Dr Whitmore made a seminar presentation on lsquoPolitical Developments in Ukraine since lsquoOrangersquo at the Wider Europe Seminar for College of Europe Mastersrsquo students at Ukrainian Catholic University Lrsquoviv Ukraine in October Associate Members In January Elena Denezhkina and Adrian Campbell addressed two conferences in Kaliningrad on the subject of lsquoPost-Experience Public Administration Training in a Russian Contextrsquo The conferences formed part of the European Union Kaledu project

12 In May Adrian Campbell took part in a seminar (chaired by the Council of Europe) in Moscow and a follow-up conference in Stavropol that brought together the Chechen political leadership and the legal department of the Federal Presidential Administration on the topic of local government legislation in the Chechen Republic BOARDS AND COMMITTEES Dr Averre served as a consulting board member of the International Working Group ndash Transitions Initiative Landau Network Centro Volta Como Italy Professor Cooper became Director of the Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) at Birmingham and also became a Member of the Europe Group of the British Academy (a recently formed committee to review the BArsquos engagement with Europe) He continued to act as a member of the editorial boards of Eurasian Geography and Economics and the Routledge Russian and East European studies series Within the University Professor Cooper became Director of CREES from September 2006 and served on University Committees as a Member of the Research and Knowledge Transfer Committee the Chair of the RAE Umbrella Group of the Deanery of Arts and Social Sciences and as Convenor of the ESRC Forum Professor Davies continued to serve as a member of the Editorial Board of the archival series Tragediya sovetskoi derevni (Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside) and as an Honorary Vice-President of the Society for Cooperation in Russian and Soviet Studies He is an Honorary Life Member of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies

Professor Hanson continued to act as Associate Fellow to the Russia and Eurasia Programme Chatham House (Royal Institute for International Affairs) and also as Trustee of the Centre for Research into Post-Communist Countries He continued to serve as a member of the Editorial Board of Post-Communist Economies and to act as consultant to Oxford Analytica Rio Tinto and Aramco Dr Haughton continued to serve on the International Advisory Board of the Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs and the Steering Committee British-Czech-Slovak Historianrsquos Forum Dr Ilič continued to serve as Membership Secretary of BASEES (British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies) and on the National Advisory Board for Europe-Asia Studies Professor Perrie continued to serve as Vice-President (Past President) of BASEES (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies) and as a member of the National Advisory Board of Europe-Asia Studies Michael Pushkin served as Russian Tutor at the Department of Vocal and Operatic Studies of the Birmingham Conservatoire from September 2005 and as Visiting lecturer of the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies University of Nottingham during the Autumn Semester 2005 Professor Pilkington was appointed a member of the RAE Sub-Panel for European Studies (Unit 50) for RAE 2008 from February 2005 She continued to serve as a member of the Advisory Board of the Aleksanteri Institute (Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies) Helsinki Finland and as a member of the editorial committee of CurzonBASEES series

13 Dr Wolczuk was invited to join the Advisory Board of the East European Studies On-line at the Free University in Berlin Germany Dr Yemelianova has continued to serve as an Honorary member of ORIGENS an International Cultural Association Barcelona Spain Since September 2006 she has been a member of the National Advisory Board of the journal Europe-Asia Studies Honorary Senior Research Fellows Mark Harrison continued as Chair Department of Economics University of Warwick and also as Distinguished Visiting Fellow Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace Stanford University Honorary Research Fellows Dr Richardson became a member of the Steering Committee of the BASEES Study Group for Societal Change in the Post-Socialist States Dr Holtom continued to serve as a member of the scientific board for the journal NordeuropaForum Associate Members Dr Shaw continued to serve as a Member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Eurasian Geography and Economics and as a Member of the Editorial Board of Teaching in Higher Education RESEARCH History The findings of the ESRC research project lsquoTerror War Preparations and Economic Developmentrsquo in relation to the repressions have been published as a book edited by Melanie Ilič (see Publications) British Russian and Ukrainian historians collaborated in the project which has been graded lsquoOutstandingrsquo by the ESRC Research has placed the focus on the victims of the purges in the 1930s In particular through a series of database analyses it identifies the social profiles of those who were repressed in 1937-38 (a) The Terror against Economic Officials Dr Khlevnyuk primarily using the former party archives has systematically examined the consequences of the nomenklatura terror for officials in the Peoplersquos Commissariats concerned with the economy He showed that it was first directed against former members of various opposition groupings within the party From the end of 1936 it spread far more widely and it was given a further impulse by the launching of the mass terror In 1938 the waves of arrests extended to officials newly appointed to their posts in 1937 Of the 32000 persons on the nomenklatura of the party central committee at the beginning of 1939 47 per cent had been appointed in 1937 and 1938 Dr Khlevnyuk showed that as a result of the terror the Soviet economy was in the hands of a complex mixture of generations For instance at the highest level of the thirty Peoplersquos Commissars only four all in their forties had been in place before the terror 16 were officials aged 36 to 45 previously at the level of enterprise director or above and ten aged 34 to 39 had previously been at the level of foreman or head of an enterprise department

14 (b) Mass Terror Dr Vasiliev has carried out a study of both the nomenklatura terror and the mass terror in Ukraine Here the terror was particularly far-reaching He showed that as early as the beginning of 1938 all members of the Ukrainian Politburo all the regional first party secretaries and nearly all the Peoplersquos Commissars had been arrested More detailed studies show how the nomenklatura purge affected the coal industry and agriculture Secondly he showed that the mass terror in Ukraine (and probably everywhere) was based on the secret police records of the former kulaks and other persons deemed anti-Soviet and of criminals Case studies of the mass terror examine the Vinnitsa and Poltava regions

Drs Ilič and Joyce have undertaken a case study of the impact of the mass terror in the Mordovian region The Republic of Mordoviya was selected because it presents a largely agricultural under-industrialised region of the Soviet Union to offer comparison with our knowledge of the impact of the terror in Moscow and Leningrad Using the published lists of purge victims they examined the waves of repression particularly during collectivisation and dekulakisation (1929-33) and during the mass operations of 1936-8 This case study surveys all those who were executed and also all of the women who were arrested some of whom were executed during the years covered by the printed source The presentation of lsquovictim studiesrsquo on a regional basis provides a new approach to the study of the Great Terror and allows us to see how the mass terror impacted at its lowest level throughout the Soviet Union The results of the Mordoviya study indicate that the main victims of repression in this region were socially marginal groups (such as the independent peasantry and religious personnel) and individuals who were economically non-productive (such as housewives and individuals in the older age cohorts) Dr Joyce has examined the repressions in the Komi republic Komi was selected because it was an important region in the network of Gulag camps Using a database of over 8000 people repressed during 1928ndash59 he examined the pattern of repression in the region to establish whether specific groups within an already marginalised penal society were targeted for further punishments Findings indicate that Gulag inmates who were already largely isolated from the rest of Soviet society were not immune from the purge process Some Gulag inmates were subject to re-arrest extended terms of imprisonment and execution Dr Joyce also investigated whether certain categories of free workers in the region were targeted and if their close proximity to lsquoenemies of the peoplersquo increased their chance of arrest This case study has contributed to a broader study of the impact of the purges in the Gulag Dr Ilič has examined in detail the introduction terms and impact of the previously neglected NKVD Order No 00486 lsquoOn the Repression of the Wives of Enemies and Traitors to the Motherlandrsquo (15 August 1937) She has also prepared a social and demographic profile of the thousands of women executed in 1937 and 1938 in order to establish how far those arrested under Order 00486 were the main victims of the terror It is evident from this research that the mass operations extended far beyond the wives and female relatives of men who were purged The findings of this research suggest that many of the women who were arrested during the mass operations were unmarried they had former connections or were continuing to serve as religious personnel and a number had been a member of an opposition party organisation On the basis of these studies and of those carried out by other historians we have established a preliminary demographic profile of the social origins and occupations of victims of the mass terror (c) Rearmament and Mobilisation Preparations 1936-41 The growing Nazi threat led the Soviet Union to expand armaments production and investment rapidly from 1936 but at the same time the terror thoroughly disrupted the defence and

15 mobilisation agencies at every level We have concluded however contrary to our original assumption that the mobilisation system was rapidly re-established after 1938 but detailed mobilisation programmes were not put into operation until the eve of the German invasion (d) Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Professor R W Davies continued his research on the sixth volume of this series which deals with the economy in 1934-9 He published an article in the volume edited by Melanie Ilič which examines the economic background to the purges and concludes that contrary to a widespread view there was no economic crisis in the first six months of 1936 which was a major contributory factor in the launching of the purges He also provides confirmatory evidence that the purges had a negative effect on the economy He also prepared a chapter for a volume on recently declassified verbatim reports of Politburo meetings entitled lsquoGrain Class and Politics during the New Economic Policyrsquo This dealt with the discussion at the meeting of December 10 1925 on lsquoThe Work of the Central Statistical Administration on the Grain-Fodder Balancersquo which resulted in the dismissal of PI Popov director of the Administration since its foundation in 1918 Melanie Ilič has completed work on an article entitled lsquoSoviet Women and Civil Defence Training in the 1930srsquo She has begun work relating to the AHRC project on lsquoPolicy and Governance in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchevrsquo for which she is preparing studies on the revival of the zhensovety and on Khrushchevrsquos construction programme Professor Perrie oversaw the progress through the press of the Cambridge History of Russia vol I which she edited and co-authored (the volume was published in the summer of 2006) She also continued to work on popular monarchism and political legitimacy in 17th-century Russia and wrote a number of papers on aspects of these topics From September 2005 to March 2006 Dr Smith was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Aleksanteri Insitute University of Helsinki funded by a Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Fellowship During this time he started work on a monograph on The Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR Simultaneously he started together with Melanie Ilic a project on lsquoGovernance and Policy in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev 1953-1964rsquo funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Under the auspices of this project he has continued his research on nationalities policy in the USSR under Khrushchev and has also started working on the reform of the Soviet wine-making industry in this period a topic which has also led on to talks and articles on the Russian embargo on imports of Georgian wine in 2006 He also completed editorial work together with Dr Markku Kangaspuro on Modernisation and Russian Society since 1900 which was to be published later in 2006 In April 2006 he organised and led a group of UK-based research students to Moscow for initial training in the use of the historical archives there The project was funded by the AHRC and has been highly acclaimed Joshua Andy postgraduate student presented a paper on the initial findings of his research on the Cuba missile crisis at a conference in Hamburg in May 2006 which is now due to be published Robert Hornsby postgraduate student has already carried out extensive archival work in Moscow and made significant progress with his research in the first year of his PhD He was accepted as a visiting research student at Columbia University New York for autumn 2006 Dr Titov made a research trip to the Moscow archives in April 2006 in connection with the research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council on lsquoPolicy and Governance in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchevrsquo Work on a paper entitled lsquo1961 Party Programme and the Fte of the Soviet Projectrsquo has been carried out and is planned for

16 submission in late 2006 A further article on lsquoCompleting lsquoRussian Concepts of History a Gumilev-Danilevskii Comparisonrsquo is planned for submission early 2007 Honorary Senior Research Fellows Linda Edmondson completed her research on Hector Berlioz and Russian cultural politics Her current research focuses on Ivan Turgenev and his response to the western classics and to contemporary music in the West and Russia his views on the nationalist school and the ways in which he uses musical references and portrays musicians amateur and professional in his novels and short stories Mark Harrison continued to work with Paul Gregory (Houston) and Andrei Markevich now a Marie Curie research fellow at Warwick on aspects of the political economy of the Soviet command system and with Stephen Broadberry (Warwick) and Jari Eloranta (Appalachian State) on the economics of the two world wars His main ambition for the coming period is to bring an edited collection of new research papers on the Soviet defence industry through review to publication Economics Julian Cooper undertook research into Russiarsquos place in the global economy Prospects for the development of a knowledge-based economy were explored in an article commissioned by the journal Eurasian Geography and Economics This discussed Russia in relation to developments in Brazil China and India (the so-called BRIC economies) plus some other populous emerging markets A second article for the same journal examined the competitiveness of Russian exports Russian military economic developments were monitored with a contribution to the SIPRI Yearbook on the defence industry and a working paper on military expenditure Philip Hanson extended earlier work on the varieties of economic institutions in ex-communist countries in two directions (1) an analysis of the influence of the EU accession process on the development of economic institutions in the eight 2004 accession countries using various rankings and scores on governance ease of doing business etc provided by the World Bank and other sources (2) an assessment of the contemporary state of comparative economic studies and its place among adjoining sub-fields of economics For (1) he obtained a British Academy Small Research Grant to cover the cost of interviewing policy-makers in Warsaw Budapest and Brussels The resulting paper will be published as a chapter in a book on economic transformation The paper arising from (2) was the basis of a keynote lecture to the Japan Association for Comparative Economic Studies and will be published in their journal Science Technology and Industry Dr Averre continued his research into science technology and industry in the USSR successor states under the terms of an externally-funded project producing reports and compiling a project database Politics and Security Studies Dr Averre continued his research into Russian foreign and security policy and arms controlnon-proliferation issues He is participating in a Finnish Academy-funded network on Russia and the EU and is also participating in an ongoing project organised by the US Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council and the Landau Network Centro Volta Italy on strengthening proliferation prevention with Russia in the biotechnology sphere He also contributed to activities of the Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy at the University of Birmingham

17 Mr Stephen Aris postgraduate student drafted two chapters of his PhD thesis entitled lsquoRegional Security in Central Asia Post-11 September 2001 the Shanghai Cooperation Organisationrsquo and completed 3 months language training at Moscow State University Sean Robertsrsquo ESRC funded PhD research is scheduled for completion in 2008 with fieldwork in Russia planned for 2007 The aim of this research is to detail an area of Russian politics that has grown in significance since the collapse of the Soviet Union and that currently exerts a strong influence on Russian political life Understanding the rise of the current party of power United Russia together with the wider implications of the party of power concept for Russian political development is presently hindered by an absence of detailed empirical and theoretical analysis This research has proceeded through a literature review of party politics literature to outline a framework of analysis to document and analyse past and present parties of power focusing on aspects such as their role organization and ideology but more importantly on conceptualising the lsquoparty of powerrsquo in comparative terms exploring the forces driving its development Claire Wilkinson postgraduate student completed fieldwork for her PhD thesis on lsquoSocietal Security in Kyrgyzstanrsquo in Bishkek and Osh Kyrgyzstan Whilst in Osh she also gave a guest seminar on Post-Cold War Understandings of Security at Osh Technical University In August she attended the ECPR Methods Summer School in Ljublana (August 06) completing the Interpretive Methods course Dr Elena Denezhkina continued working on the TACIS project lsquoInstitutional Legal and Economic Federalism in the Russian Federationrsquo visiting Moscow Oblast and the RF Ministry of Regional Development Dr Haughtonrsquos research has followed four main themes Firstly he has continued to examine the intricacies and complexities of Slovak politics In May-June 2006 he travelled to Slovakia to observe the election campaign and is in the process of using his findings to produce an academic article Secondly in a collaborative project with Aleks Szczerbiak (Sussex) Sean Hanley (SSEES UCL) and others he is examining parties of the centre-right in Central and Eastern Europe He produced a working paper on the centre-right in Croatia and Slovakia and made progress on a joint-authored article on the centre-right in East-Central Europe Thirdly with John Gould and Sharon Fisher he is exploring why countries take neo-liberal turns An article is currently close to completion Fourthly he convened an international academic network (funded by the Leverhulme Trust) exploring the lsquoImpact of EU membership on Slovakia as a case study of a small new member statersquo This yielded a contribution to an edited volume and two journal articles (to be published in 2007) Odeta Barbullushi postgraduate student conducted a series of interviews in Albania during the 2005-6 academic year for her PhD thesis on lsquoUnder the Gaze of Europe Identity Politics and Foreign Policy in Post-communist Albaniarsquo In December 2006 she conducted archival work at the State Archives of Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Albania Lara Scarpitta postgraduate student was based in Brussels for much of the year and conducted a series of interviews in addition to holding a stage in the Commission Her PhD thesis is entitled lsquoJustice and Home Affairs and Romanian Accession to the EUrsquo Magda Skrybant postgraduate student made good progress writing up the fruits of her research gathered the year before for her PhD thesis on lsquoThe Relationship between Workers and Intellectuals in Poland 1976-19823rsquo

18 During 2005-6 Kataryna Wolczuk conducted research on the impact of the European Neighbourhood Policy on Ukraine with a grant from the British Academy As part of this research project she made two visits to Brussels (March and Sept 2006) and Ukraine (Feb and Nov 2006) to conduct interviews with Ukrainian and EU officials experts and academics Research findings will be published in an academic article as well as a book on Ukrainersquos relations with Europe which she is currently working on She also continued to act as Regional coordinator and be a member of the Steering Committee in a RIME project (Releasing Indigenous Multiculturalism in Eastern Europe) funded by the European Commission under EIDHR programme on lsquoCombating Racism Xenophobia amp Discrimination against Ethnic Minorities amp Indigenous Peoplersquo Aleksandra Duda postgraduate student made excellent progress during her 1st year Her academic achievements in that year include participation in a entrepreneurship programme lsquoEnterprisersrsquo organized by Cambridge Acirc- MIT Institute (January 2006) presentation at the Second CEU Graduate Conference in Social Sciences in Budapest (May 2006) presentation at the international Summer School in Berlin on lsquoJustice as a Societal and Political Matterrsquo (July 2006) submission of the draft of theory chapter of her PhD thesis She also made preparations for three-month-long fieldwork in the Republic of Georgia (Sept-Nov 2006) and made a successful application to the ESRC in order to continue doctoral research at the Kluge Centre in the Library of Congress Washington DC Dominique Peters postgraduate student in her second year of PhD made good progress in particular she prepared for and carried out six months of field work in Ukraine taught some undergraduate Eastern European politics sessions wrote literature review chapters and processed field work data In connection with the European Commission project lsquoReleasing Indigenous Multiculturalism through Education (RIME)rsquo Dr Yemelianova acted as member of the RIME management board responsible for the Southern Russia region and for the RIME publications Together with Dr K Wolczuk she edited special issues of Nationalities Papers and a book both entitled ldquoEthnic Diversity Multiculturalism and Xenophobia in post-Communist Societiesrdquo forthcoming in 2007 with Routledge Dr Yemelianova also worked as editor and a contributor on the book The Growth of Islamic Radicalism in Eurasia Internal Determinants Comparative Perspectives and Potential Consequences funded by The Nuffield Foundation in 2003-2005 which is forthcoming in 2007 also with Routledge Honorary Research Fellows Dr Sarah Whitmore continued work on her ESRC project lsquoParliamentary Oversight in Russia and Ukrainersquo conducting fieldwork in Moscow during January-March She conducted semi-structured interviews with deputies senators and staff from the Audit Chamber and Human Rights Ombudsman and observations in the Federal Assembly The findings were presented at the Seventh Workshop of Parliamentary Scholars and Parliamentarians Wroxton (Oxon) in July and a pilot visit to Kyiv was undertaken in May in preparation for fieldwork in Ukraine during autumn 2006 During the year Sarah also gave a number of guest lectures including to The Law Society in May Sociology and Cultural Studies Dr Edginton completed a British Academy funded research project on the integration of Polish A-grade fonctionnaires in the European Commission and wrote reports for the Commission the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office

19 As a result of dissemination of research at national and international conferences over the last 12 months two major articles are being prepared for publication by Dr Morris The first on Russian popular music and culture has been submitted to a leading journal (July 2006) and the second on Russian advertising and cultural difference has been provisionally accepted for inclusion in a special journal number (Europe-Asia Studies) on Russian mass media A monograph on Russian literature is still in preparation for publication in 2007 Jelena Obradovic postgraduate student has this year completed the fieldwork for her thesis lsquoTrauma Identity and Nationalism in Post Milosevic Serbiarsquo Ulrike Ziemer postgraduate students has this year completed her six months ethnographic fieldwork for her thesis lsquoDealing with Diversity Youth Ethnicity and Cultural Practice in Russiarsquo and has presented a paper at the RGSS-IBG Annual Conference in August 2006 entitled lsquoResearching Youth Cultures in Russia Armenian and Adygeyan Youth Cultural Practicesrsquo Honorary Research Fellows Since October 2006 Erica Richardson has been based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine working at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies Her work has focused on updating the Health in Transition (HiT) Profiles for countries of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia The HiT Profiles are country-based reports that provide a detailed description of a health system and of policy initiatives in progress or under development HiTs examine different approaches to the organization financing and delivery of health services and the role of the main actors in health systems describe the institutional framework process content and implementation of health and health care policies and highlight challenges and areas that require more in-depth analysis The HiT for Armenia is due out in December 2006 with Mongolia following early in 2007 Geography Associate Members Dr Dominique Moran in conjunction with Dr Judith Pallot (Oxford) and Dr Laura Piacentini (Strathclyde) was awarded a research grant from the ESRC lsquoWomen in the Russian Penal System The role of distance in the theory and practice of imprisonment in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russiarsquo (pound242k) to run 2006-2009 She also continued to research into the geography of HIVAIDS in Russia with publications in Eurasian Geography and Economics and conference presentations in the US Dr Shaw continued his researches into the history of science and mapmaking in Russia during the period between the mid-seventeenth and the mid-eighteenth centuries His ESRC project in collaboration with Dr Oldfield on lsquoRussian Views of Sustainable Development and their Historical Antecedentsrsquo was completed The project has given rise to several journal publications and book chapters and a book is currently planned It is also hoped to extend this work by means of a new project focusing on the history of Russian environmental thought Dr Shaw began to work on his new British Academy project on lsquoThe Cultural Landscape as a Heritage Feature A Comparative Study of the UK and Russiarsquo concerned with the comparative scientific and practical problems of conserving heritage landscapes in the UK and Russia The research is in association with the Russian Research Institute for Natural and Cultural Heritage in Moscow In August 2006 an initial field visit to Russia was made by Drs Shaw and Moran together with Dr Bob Prosser (CURS) who were accompanied by a group from the Russian institute as they visited Kenozero National Park in Arkhangelsk Oblast and Borodino Field

20 west of Moscow A return visit to British national parks will be made by the Russians in September 2007 to be followed by a workshop in Birmingham Russian Language Literature and Music Michael Pushkinrsquos research into the poetry of Andrei Voznesensky has continued A 1200-word article on the poet was published in the internet Literary Encyclopedia in November In the same month a paper entitled lsquoldquoFarewell to the microphonerdquo The Sixties in the Poetry of Andrei Voznesenskyrsquo was presented as a contribution to the SSEESUCL seminar series lsquoRe-imagining the Thawrsquo EXTERNAL GRANTS The European Unionrsquos acquis communautaire and the Change in the Economic Institutions of Central European Applicant Countries pound1380 British Academy 1 April 2006 to 31 August 2006 Principal Investigator Prof P Hanson Arms Control and Economic Transition in the USSR Successor States pound46000 UK Government 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007 Principal Investigator Dr DL Averre Soviet Economic Policy and Development from the XVII to the XVIII Party Congress 1934-1939 pound42207 ESRC 1 February 2006 to 31 January 2009 Pricipal Investigator Prof RW Davies with the collaboration of Prof Wheatcroft (Melbourne) and Dr Oleg Khlevnyuk (Moscow) Centre for Language Based East European Area Studies (CEELBAS) pound1108966 (of which pound585060 for PhD studentships) ESRC 1 October 2006 to 30 September 2011 Principal investigator Professor J M Cooper PUBLICATIONS Books and Articles published by Members Associate Members and Honorary Research Staff of the Centre DL Averre lsquoRussia-EU Security Cooperationrsquo in Smith H ed The

Two-Level Game Russias Relations with Great Britain Finland and the European Union 2 Aleksanteri Institute Finland 2006 pp 123-40

DL Averre lsquoReemployment Education and Economic Diversification at

RussianNIS Bio Research Centresrsquo in Luongo KN Della Ratta JR Martellini M eds Advancing International Cooperation on Bio-Initiatives in Russia and the CIS Washington DC Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council 2006

DL Averre lsquoRussiarsquos ldquosovereign democracyrdquo what does it mean for Europersquo httpwwwia-forumorgContentForumContentcfm ForumTopicID=6 International Affairs Forum 2006

DL Averre Advancing International Cooperation on Bio-Initiatives in

Russia and the CIS Washington DC 2006 1-27

21 ET Bacon Securitising Russia the Domestic Politics of Putin

Manchester Manchester University Press 2006 xviii + 213 pp

RQ Braithwaite Moscow 1941 A City and its People at War Profile

London 2006 xvii + 446 pp A Campbell Russian Local Self-Government Convergence with Europersquo Published in Institutionalrsquoniy Pravovoi I Ekonomicheskiy

Federalizm v Rossiskoi Federatsii Quarterly Bulletin No 5 2006 pp 58-64 (in Russian)

JM Cooper lsquoDevelopments in the Russian Arms Industryrsquo in SIPRI

Yearbook 2006 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute - Oxford University Press Oxford 2006 pp 431-48

JM Cooper Military Expenditure in the 2005 and 2006 Federal Budgets

of the Russian Federationrsquo a research note published on Website of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (httpwwwsipriorgcontentsmilapcooper_russia_20060130) (January 2006)

JM Cooper lsquoSociety-Military Relations in Russia the Economic

Dimensionrsquo in Webber SL and Mathers JG eds Military and Society in post-Soviet Russia Manchester University Press Manchester 2006 pp 131-56

JM Cooper lsquoOf BRICS and Brains Comparing Russia with China India

and Other Populous Emerging Economiesrsquo Eurasian Geography and Economics 2006 vol 47 no 3 pp 241-70

JM Cooper lsquoCan Russia Compete in the Global Economyrsquo Eurasian

Geography and Economics 2006 vol 47 no 4 pp 407-25 JM Cooper lsquoThe Rise and Fall of Economic Securitizationrsquo in Bacon

ET Renz B with Cooper JM eds Securitising Russia The Domestic Politics of Putin Manchester University Press Manchester 2006

RW Davies (with lsquoStalin and the Soviet Famine of 1932-33 A Reply to SG Wheatcroft) Ellmanrsquo Europe-Asia Studies vol 58 no 4 2006 pp 625-33 RW Davies lsquoThe Soviet Economy and the Launching of the Great

Terrorrsquo in Ilič M ed Stalinrsquos Terror Revisited PalgraveMacmillan Basingstoke and New York 2006 pp 11-37

E Denezhkina lsquoOpyt Velikobritaniyii v Oblasti Gosudarstvennogo

Ustroistvarsquo in Federalism no 1 (4) 3a 2006 JC Elkner lsquoDedovshchina and the Committee of Soldiersrsquo Mothers

under Gorbachevrsquo in Dauceacute F and Sieca-Kozlowski E eds Dedovshchina in the Post-Soviet Military Hazing of Russian

22 Army Conscripts in a Comparative Perspectiveibidem-Verlag Stuttgart 2006 pp 144-74

P Hanson lsquoObservations on the Costs of the Yukos Affair to Russiarsquo

Eurasian Geography and Economics vol 46 no 7 2005 pp 481-95

P Hanson lsquoRussia and the West The Russians are Herersquo The World

Today vol 62 no 4 2006 pp 22-4 P Hanson lsquoNostalgia for a Dictatorshiprsquo The Cholmeleian 2006 pp

30-2 P Hanson Oxford Analytica Daily Brief ndash sixteen Briefs written

October 2005 to September 2006 M Harrison (with Byung-Yeon lsquoPlans Prices and Corruption The Soviet Firm Under Kim) Partial Centralization 1930 to 1990rsquo Journal of Economic

History vol 66 no 1 2006 pp 1-41 M Harrison lsquoBombers and Bystanders in Suicide Attacks in Israel 2000-

2003rsquo Studies in Conflict and Terrorism vol 29 no 2 2006 pp 187-206

M Harrison (with A Markevich) lsquoQuality Experience and Monopoly the Soviet Market for

Weapons Under Stalinrsquo Economic History Review vol 59 no 1 2006 pp 113-42

M Harrison lsquoA Soviet Quasi-Market for Inventions Jet Propulsion 1932

to 1946rsquo Research in Economic History vol 23 2005 pp 1-59

TJ Haughton (with D Malova) lsquoChallenge from the Pace-Setting Periphery Causes and

Consequences of Slovakias Stance on Further European Integrationrsquo in Sadurski W Ziller K Zurek K eds Apregraves Enlargement Legal and Political Responses in Central and Eastern Europe San Domenico di Fiesole Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies 2006 pp 323-38

TJ Haughton (with S Fisher) lsquoFrom the Politics of State-building to Programmatic

Politics The Post-Federal Experience and the Development of Centre-Right Party Politics in Croatia and Slovakiarsquo University of Birmingham European Research Working Papers Series No 16 2006

TJ Haughton ldquoSocialdemokratizaciardquo strany Smer ndash socialna demokracia v

horizonte volieb 2006rsquo in Muransky M ed Vyvoj a perspektivy socialnej demokracie na Slovensku ndash pohlad zvnutra a zvonku Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Bratislava 2006 pp 50-56

TJ Haughton lsquoChallenge from the Pace-Setting Periphery The Causes and

Consequences of Slovakiarsquos Stance on Further European Integrationrsquo in Sadurski W et al Apregraves Enlargement

23 Taking Stock of the Immediate Legal and Political Responses to the Accession of Central and Eastern European States to the EU Robert Schuman Center Florence 2006 pp 323-38

TJ Haughton Slovakia Euro is Outside Debate on Economic Policyrsquo

Oxford Analytica Daily Brief May 2006 TJ Haughton lsquoSlovakia Lust for Power Unites New Coalitionrsquo Oxford

Analytica Daily Brief July 2006 P Holtom lsquoThe Baltic States Arms Brokers and Diversions of Armsrsquo

[Published in Lithuanian as lsquoBaltijos Valstybės Ginklų Prekybos Tarpininkai ir Nelegalus Ginklų Gabenimasrsquo Lietuvos Metinė Strateginė Apžvalga 2004 (Vilnius Lietuvos Karo Akademija and Vilniaus Universiteto 2005) 111-25] Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review 2004 2005 pp 99-112

P Holtom lsquoRememberingForgetting Koumlnigsberg in Soviet Kaliningrad

Recent Reflections and Controversiesrsquo Contemporary Kaliningrad A Window to Europe no 6 2006 pp 81-101

P Holtom lsquoTurning the Page Small Arms and Light Weapons in

Albaniarsquo Saferworld 2005 M Ilič (with RW Davies lsquoStalinrsquos Terror Revisitedrsquo Basingstoke Palgrave 2006 O Khlevnyuk J Jo C Joyce 236 pp V Vasiliev) M Ilič lsquoWomen in the Stalinist Erarsquo Twentieth Century History

Review vol 1 no 2 2006 pp 12-6 M Ilič lsquoThe Great Terror Reassessedrsquo Twentieth Century History

Review vol 1 no 3 2006 pp 7-11 S Malle Cooperazione internazionale e globalizzazione il ruolo

dellrsquoOCSE Collana I Percorsi dello Sviluppo 4-2006 pp 49-68

D Moran lsquoSoviet Cartography Set in Stone the lsquoMap of

Industrializationrsquordquo Environment and Planning D Society and Space vol 24 no 5 2006 pp 671ndash89

D Moran (with JA Jordaan) lsquoHIVAIDS in Russia Determinants of Regional

Prevalencersquordquo Abstract published in the Proceedings of the Eastern European and Central Asian AIDS Conference Moscow May 2006

D Moran lsquoThe Geography of HIVAIDS in Russia Risk and

Vulnerability in Transitionrsquo Eurasian Geography and Economics vol 46 no 7 2005 525-51

JB Morris lsquoThe Empire Strikes Back Projections of National Identity in

Contemporary Russian Advertisingrsquo Russian Review 64 2005 pp 642-60

24 J Mullen Vyacheslav Ivanov and C M Bowra A Correspondence

from Two Corners on Humanism Birmingham Slavonic Monographs No 36 2006

MP Perrie lsquoThe Muscovite Monarchy in the Sixteenth Century

ldquoNationalrdquo ldquoPopularrdquo or ldquoDemocraticrdquorsquo in La Russie vers 1550 Monarchie nationale ou empire en formation Cahiers du Monde russe vol 46 nos 1-2 2005 pp 233-42

MP Perrie (editor and co-author) The Cambridge History of Russia vol I From Early Rusrsquo to

1689 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2006 Author of Chapter 1 lsquoIntroductionrsquo pp 1-18 Chapter 18 lsquoThe Time of Troubles (1603-1613)rsquo pp 409-31 and Chapter 26 lsquoPopular Revolts (1613-1689)rsquo pp 600-17 Translator of Chapter 8 VL Ianin lsquoMedieval Novgorodrsquo pp 188-210 and Chapter 11 AP Pavlov lsquoFedor Ivanovich and Boris Godunov (1584-1605)rsquo pp 264-85 xxii + 777 pp

MP Perrie lsquoThe Terrible Tsar as Comic Hero Mikhail Bulgakovrsquos Ivan

Vasilrsquoevichrsquo in Platt KMF and Brandenberger D eds Epic Revisionism Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda Madison WI University of Wisconsin Press 2006 pp 143-56

M Pushkin Andrei Voznesensky Literary Encyclopedia

(wwwlitencyccom) 1 Nov 2005 EC Richardson (with Mobilizing Youth for Health Politics and Peer Education in O Taraskin) Post-Soviet Russia The Journal of Communist Studies and

Transition Politics vol 22 no 1 2006 pp 73-89 EC Richardson Vorkuta in Oswalt P and Rieniets T eds Atlas of Shrinking

CitiesAtlas der schrumfenden Staumldte Hatje Kanz Verlag Ostfildern Germany 2006 p 83

DJB Shaw Mapmaking Science and State Building in Russia before

Peter the Great Journal of Historical Geography vol 41 no 3 2005 pp 409-29

DJB Shaw (with J Oldfield) Russian Understandings of Society-Nature Interaction

Historical Underpinnings of the Sustainable Development Concept in Rosenholm A and Autio-Sarasmo S eds Understanding Russian Nature Representations Values and Concepts Aleksanteri Institute (Aleksanteri Papers 42005) Saarijarvi 2005 pp 237-52

DJB Shaw (with J Oldfield) Russian Concepts of Sustainable Development VI

Vernadsky and the noosphere Concept Geoforum vol 37 2006 pp 145-54

DJB Shaw Bernhard Vareniusrsquo Geographia Generalis and its translation

and publication in Peter the Greatrsquos Russia (1718) Study

25 Group on Eighteenth Century Russia Newsletter 2006 pp 9-13

DJB Shaw (with J Oldfield) Russian Views of Sustainable Development and their

Historical Antecedents ESRC Final Report (Ref no R000223743) 2006 wwwesrcsocietytodayacukESRCInfoCentreSearch

DJB Shaw (with J Oldfield) Russian Views of Sustainable Development Project

Overview and Preliminary Findings Working Paper School of Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences Birmingham 2006

wwwgeesbhamacukresearchrussiansdpublicationshtm A Titov lsquoIstoriia neskolrsquokikh zabluzhdeniirsquo Revue des Etudes Slaves

vol 76 no 4 2005 pp 499ndash510 DJ White The Russian Democratic Party Yabloko Opposition in a

Managed Democracy Ashgate Aldershot 2006 vi + 263 pp DJ White lsquoGoing Their Own Way Understanding the Yabloko Partys

Opposition to Unificationrsquo Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics vol 21 no 4 2005 pp 461-85

SV Whitmore lsquoChallenges and Constraints for Post-Soviet Committee

Systems Exploring the Impact of Parties on Committees in Ukraine The Journal of Legislative Studies vol 12 no 1 2006 pp 32-53

SV Whitmore ldquoDamit muumlssen wir lebenrdquo Das neue Parlament und das neue

Regierungssystem der Ukraine (lsquoWe have what we haversquo The New Parliament and the New Political System in Ukrainersquo)rsquo Ukraine-analysen vol 5 2006 pp 2-6

K Wolczuk lsquoDomestic Politics and European Integration in Ukrainersquo

International Spectator vol XLI no 4 2006 pp 7-23 G Yemelianova lsquoIslam in Russiarsquo in Coughlin K ed Muslim Cultures

Today A Reference Guide Greenwood Press Westport 2006 pp 147-58

G Yemelianova lsquoThe Growth of Islamic Radicalism in Eurasiarsquo in Abbas T ed

Islamic Political Radicalism ndash A European Perspective CUP 2006 pp 83-98

G Yemelianova (with JS Nielsen lsquoTransnational Sufism the Haqqaniyyarsquo in Malik J and Hinnells and M Draper) J eds Suffism in the West London amp New York Routledge

2006 pp 103-14 G Yemelianova lsquoIslam in Russiarsquo The Maghreb Review 30 2006 pp 2-4 G Yemelianova lsquoThe Muslim Caucasusrsquo (In Conference on Ethnic and

Religious Communities in the Caucasus Warburg Institute London 27-28 March 2006)

26 G Yemelianova ldquoChechen Conflictrdquo ENCARTA Online Encyclopedia

December 2005 Birmingham Slavonic Monographs The Birmingham Slavonic Monographs series continues with its occasional publication of original scholarly work from contributors in various countries mostly the UK and USA The current year saw the appearance of a study by Pamela Davidson (SSEES) investigating the correspondence between Vyacheslav Ivanov and C M Bowra which throws light on the Russian poetrsquos attitude towards Western and other cultures as well as giving an insight into the international literary scene of the time Palgrave-CREES Series Studies in Russian and East European History and Society (Joint General Editors RW Davies EA Rees M Ilič JR Smith) The following title has been published in the past year M Ilič (ed) Stalinrsquos Terror Revisited Sadly this will be the last in the series THESES AND DISSERTATIONS Completed H Burt lsquoThe Impact of Transition on Male Life Expectancy in Post-Soviet

Russiarsquo (MSc supervisor JM Cooper) K Cassidy lsquoUnderstanding the Relationship Between lsquoKin-Statersquo and lsquoCo-Ethnicsrsquo

An Analysis of Romanian and Ukrainian Policies with Regard to Romanians in Northern Bukovinarsquo (MA supervisor K Wolczuk)

M Frear lsquoWestern Assistance to Civil Society in Belarus and Ukraine What is it

Good Forrsquo (MSc supervisor K Wolczuk) T Pirottawonwattana lsquoRusso-Turkmenistan Relations The Energy Pawn and Leveragersquo (MA

supervisor JM Cooper) A Popov lsquoTransnational Locals Identity and Migration of the Greeks in Post-

Soviet Russia (PhD co-supervisors HA Pilkington and EA Edginton) B Rechel lsquoMinority Rights in Post-Communist Bulgariarsquo (PhD supervisor TJ

Haughton) P Repper lsquoThe Continuing Collapse of the Russian Statersquo (MA supervisor DJ

White) A Zilberman lsquoPerceptions of Change in the European Security Environmentrsquo (PhD

supervisor SL Webber) In Preparation M Afanasseva lsquoInstitutions in Russian Transition The Case of the Defence Industryrsquo

(PhD supervisor JM Cooper)

27 A Apostolov lsquoBulgarian Youth Cultural Practice Between the Global and the Localrsquo

(PhD co-supervisors HA Pilkington and EA Edginton) S Aris lsquoRegional Security in Central Asia Post-11 September 2001 the

Shanghai Cooperation Organisationrsquo (PhD supervisor DL Averre) J Andy The Role of the Military in Soviet Politics 1953-1964 (PhD co-

supervisors JR Smith and M Ilič) K Avedissian lsquoReal and Perceived Social Inequalities Among Ethnic Groups in

Stavropolskiy Krai and the Effect of these Inequalities on these Groupsrsquo Access to Political Capitalrsquo (PhD supervisor JR Smith and JB Morris)

O Barbullushi lsquoUnder the Gaze of Europe Identity Politics and Foreign Politics in

Post-Communist Albaniarsquo (PhD co-supervisors TJ Haughton and K Wolczuk)

B Brauer lsquoThe History and Politics of Oil Development in Kazakhstanrsquo (PhD co-

supervisors P Hanson and JM Cooper) R Cole lsquoAdaptation to Changing Circumstances Crises Threats and

Opportunities in the Russian Zapovedniki since 1990rsquo (PhD supervisor JM Cooper)

O Doughty lsquoThe Media and Politics in Ukrainersquo (PhD co-supervisors K WolczukD

Marsh) A Duda lsquoYouth Activism as the Driving Force behind the Development of

Democratic Opposition Campaigns and Peaceful Revolutions Comparative Study of the Georgian Kmara and Ukrainian Pora Organizations and their Impact on Emerging Russian Youth Movementsrsquo (PhD co-supervisors K Wolczuk and DJ White)

B Fowler lsquoThe East-Central European EU Accession Process and the Role of

Candidate State Political Parties Developing a New Research Agenda with particular reference to Hungarys 1998-2002 Governmentrsquo (PhD co-supervisor TJ HaughtonK Wolczuk)

EP Graystone lsquoRussian National and Religious Identity During the Final Years of the

Time of Troubles (1610-13)rsquo (MPhil co-supervisors MP PerrieJS Smith)

E Gyulazyan lsquoCaucasian Diplomacy its Essence Implications and Interrelation with

Security in Europersquo (PhD co-supervisors DL Averre and JR Smith) R Hornsby lsquoProtest and Dissent in the Khrushchev Era From the Secret Speech to

Sinyavsky and Danielrsquo (PhD co-supervisors JR Smith and A Titov) J Jo lsquoSoviet Trade Unions under the Stalinist Industrialisation 1928-1937rsquo

(PhD co-supervisors JR Smith and M Ilič)

28 L Kosygina lsquoCitizenless Returners in Russia Strategies of Life in Gender

Perspectivesrsquo (PhD supervisor HA Pilkington) J Lane lsquoThe Political Impact of Counter-Revolutionary Repression in Russia

1906-7rsquo (PhD supervisor MP Perrie) J Obradovic lsquoTrauma Identity and Nationalism in Post Milosevic Serbiarsquo (PhD

supervisor K Wolczuk) M Nash lsquoRelations between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches in the Russian

Federationrsquo (PhD co-supervisors JR Smith and DJ White) J Perera lsquoRussiarsquos Nuclear Industryrsquo (PhD supervisor JM Cooper) D Peters lsquoUkrainian National Identity Among Children in Eastern Ukraine

Evaluating Impact of the Nationalising Agenda and Family Influence in the Creation and Consolidation of the National Selfrsquo (PhD supervisor K Wolczuk)

R Prigg Sources of Democratic Transformation (PhD co-supervisors TJ

Haughton and JM Cooper) A Prodromidou lsquoRussian Foreign Policy and the Caspian Searsquo (PhD co-supervisors DL

Averre and JM Cooper) M Rasell lsquoThe Impact of Welfare System Reform on Poverty in Russiarsquo (PhD

supervisor JM Cooper) S Roberts lsquoThe Development of Parties of Power in Post-Soviet Russiarsquo (PhD

supervisor DJ White) L Scarpitta lsquoJustice and Home Affairs and Romanian Accession to the EUrsquo (PhD

co-supervisors TJ Haughton and SO Green) E Sleptsova lsquoUkrainian Foreign Trade Integration with the EUrsquo (PhD Co-

Supervisors JM Cooper and K Wolczuk) A Snetkov lsquoRussian Official Discourse on Chechnya and North Caucasusrsquo (PhD

Co-supervisors G Yemelianova and DJ White) M Skrybant lsquoThe Relationship between Workers and Intellectuals in Poland 1976-

19823rsquo (PhD Co-supervisors Jeremy Smith and TJ Haughton) H Wakamatsu lsquoInterconfessional Relations between Belarus Ukraine and Polandrsquo (PhD

supervisor K Wolczuk) JC Walker lsquoThe Transition from Education to Work in Post-Soviet Russia

Institutional Change and Social Realityrsquo (PhD supervisor HA Pilkington)

W Westwater lsquoDevelopment of Regional Assemblies in Russia under Yeltsin and

Putinrsquo (PhD co-supervisors TJ Haughton)

29 C Wilkinson lsquoSocietal Security in Kyrgyzstanrsquo (PhD co-supervisors DL Averre and G

Yemelianova) M Yasuda lsquoRussiarsquos WTO Accession and the Impact on Regional Economiesrsquo

(PhD supervisor JM Cooper) U Ziemer lsquoDealing with Diversity Youth Ethnicity and Cultural Practice in Russiarsquo

(PhD co-supervisors HA Pilkington and Dr JB Morris) SEMINARS The Birmingham Russian History Seminars October 2005 Tony Heywood (Bradford) lsquoA ldquoFree Soviet Citizen Abroadrdquo Engineer Iu V Lomonosov in Europe and North America 1927-52rsquo Discussant Chris Williams (University of Central Lancashire) Mark Harison (Warwick) lsquoSecrecy Under Stalin the Case of the Defence Industryrsquo Discussant James Harris (Leeds) November 2005 Shane OrsquoRourke (York) lsquoThe Deportation of the Terek Cossacksrsquo Discussant Geoffrey Swain (UWE)rsquo Michael Ellman (Amsterdam) lsquoThe 1931-34 Famine Revisitedrsquo Discussant Mark Harrison (Warwick) January 2006 Chris Read (Warwick) lsquoRetrieving the Historical Leninrsquo Responding to Recent Views of Lenin Discussant Ian Thatcher (Brunel) Julie Elkner (CREES) lsquoThe Cult of Andropov e-Writing Soviet History Under Putinrsquo Discussant Bettina Renz (CREES) March 2006 Mike OrsquoMahony (Bristol) lsquoRepresenting Sporting Victory The Awards of World Champion Mariya Isakovarsquo Discussant Dr Mark Bassin (Geography UCL) Roundtable Khrushchevrsquos Secret Speech to the XX Party Congress 1956 Bob Davies (CREES formerly Communist Party member) Sir Rodric Braithwaite (formerly Foreign and Commonwealth Office) Michael Kaser (St Antonyrsquos College Oxford) David Wedgwood Benn (presentation in absentia) Polly Jones (SSEES UCL) April 2006 Geoffrey Hosking (SSEES UCL) lsquoRussians in the Soviet Unionrsquo Ronald Suny (MichiganStanford) lsquoBecoming Stalin The Evolution of a Bolshevikrsquo Current Affairs Seminar

30 The following meetings took place organised by Professor Cooper September 2005 Professor Julian Cooper (CREES) lsquoRussia under the Shadow of 2008rsquo October 2005 Dr Kataryna Wolczuk (CREES) lsquoWill Ukrainersquos Orange Revolution bear Fruitrsquo Dr Galina Yemelianova (CREES) lsquoIslamic Radicalisation in Eurasia Global or Localrsquo Dr Suvi Salmenniemi (Aleksanteri Institute Helsinki) lsquoVoluntary Organizations and the State in Putinrsquos Russia Co-operation Co-optation Confrontationrsquo November 2005 Dr David White (CREES) lsquoIs the Russian Youth Revolting A Whorsquos Who of Youth Movements in Russiarsquo Professor Evgenii Pashentsev (Moscow City Pedagogical University) lsquoManipulative Technologies in Contemporary Russian Politicsrsquo Tim Haughton (CREES) lsquoWhos left Party Politics and the Forthcoming Slovak Parliamentary Electionsrsquo Lara Scarpitta (CREES) lsquoThe European Commission Monitoring Report on Romania the Last Train to 2007rsquo Dr Derek Averre (CREES) lsquoThe Reluctant Supporter Russian lsquoMultivectorrsquo Foreign Policyrsquo December 2005 Natasha Touzovskaia (CREES) lsquoHow Free are the Russian Mediarsquo January 2006 Julian Cooper (CREES) lsquoGas Gosudarstvo Guns G8 Russiarsquos New Coursersquo Birgit Bauer (Alma AtyCREES) lsquoKazakhstan Seven More Years for Nazarabaevrsquo Ms Sarah Austerberry (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) lsquoPersonal Security on Research and Study Visits to Russiarsquo February 2006 Dr Tomasz Kamusella (Opole University Poland) lsquoPolitics and Imagination The Case of the Triple Classification of the Slavonic Languagesrsquo Professor Michael Bradshaw (Leicester University) lsquoRussia- EU Relations A UK Perspectiversquo Claire Wilkinson (CREES) lsquoKyrgyzstan and the Rise of ldquoProtestocracyrdquorsquo March 2006 Hiroaki Hayashi (University of ShimaneCREES) lsquoRussian Middle Classes Formation and Changesrsquo Rodney Cole (CREES) lsquoWorld-class Scientific Institutions under Threat Russiarsquos Zapovedniki (Special Nature Reserves) since the End of Communismrsquo

31 Professor Hilary Pilkington (University of Warwick) lsquoTalking ldquoRubbishrdquo Political and ldquoEverydayrdquo Xenophobia in post-Beslan Russiarsquo The ERI Seminar This was convened by Drs Michelle Pace and Heiko Fritz October 2005 Prof Thomas Poguntke (IGS) lsquoReflecting on the German Electionsrsquo

Prof Cillian Ryan (ERI) lsquoInternational Banking in Asia amp Emerging Europe The Influence of GATS and International Prudential Regulationrsquo Dr Fadi Hakura (Chatham House London) lsquoTurkey Inside or Outside the EUrsquo November 2005 Prof Anand Menon (ERI) lsquoThe Limits of Comparative Politics International Relations in the European Unionrsquo Prof Zdzisław Mach (Jagiellonian University of Cracow) lsquoPolandrsquos Accession to the EU an Identity Dimensionrsquo Dr Heiko Fritz (IGS) lsquoEMU Enlargement and Decision-making in the ECBrsquo December 2005 Dr Tim Haughton (CREES) Dr Nicola Smith (POLSIS) Dr Michelle Pace (ERI) lsquoAnalysing the Impact of EU Membership on Small States the cases of Slovakia Ireland and Malta comparedrsquo January 2006 Brigita Schmognerova (Vice President EBRD London and Former Slovak Finance Minister) lsquoNeoliberalism in Central and Eastern Europersquo February 2006 Professor Neill Nugent (Manchester Metropolitan University) lsquoThe Implications of Turkish Membership for the European Unionrsquo Dr Dan Wincott (POLSIS) lsquoWhen was the Golden Age Observations on Periodisation nad De-coupling the Welfare State from Keynesian Macro-Economic Policyrsquo Dr Ben Rosamond (Warwick University) lsquoThe Social Construction of the European Economyrsquo March 2006 Hiski Haukkala (University of Turku amp Finnish Institute of International Affairs Helsinki) lsquoExtending the EUrsquos Norms and Values to the East the Case of European Neighbourhood Policyrsquo Reijo Kemppinen (Head of the European Commissionrsquos Representation in the UK) lsquoThe Relationship between the UK and the EU is there any hope for the futurersquo ERI Graduate Seminar Series

32 Larissa Kossyguina co-convened the European Research Institute Graduate Seminar series for the 2005-6 session This weekly event incorporates the former CREES Open Research Postgraduate Seminar and provides a forum for graduate students of the ERI CREES and IGS and graduate students visiting the ERI to present and discuss research papers Papers given by CREES postgraduates can be found under the ldquoConferences in Birminghamrdquo section Russian Films A programme of videos of Russian films has continued to be shown on Friday afternoons Russian Television In 2005-6 the Centre continued to receive the ORT International and NTV Mir Russian TV channels by satellite A number of other East European channels can also be received OTHER PUBLIC OUTPUT Professor Davies recorded an interview with South Korean Television which will form part of a series of programmes on Soviet history Dr Haughton continued to comment on Slovak and European politics for TA3 and Markiza (Slovak TV) Slovak Radio Sme Radio Free Europe and European Voice Professor Perrie was interviewed by Volgograd TV and radio in connection with her participation in a conference at Volgograd State University dedicated to the centenary of the birth of Academician DS Likhachev in September 2006 Dr Whitmore gave a live interview on the 9 OrsquoClock News BBC World on 8 September 2005 and a live interview to Carol Coleman The Wide Angle Dublin Talk 102 on 10 September 2005 In January 2006 Dr Wolczuk gave interviews to the BBC World Service and the Radio Canada International on political developments in Ukraine Dr Yemelianova gave regular interviews for Sky News BBC World News Chanel Four News BBC4 Radio News on the situation in various ex-Soviet Muslim regions ANNUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE St Catharinersquos Foundation Lecture by Guest Speaker Professor Piotr Sztompka lsquoThe Ambivalence of Post-Communist Experiencersquo Assessing the EUrsquos lsquoTransformative Powerrsquo in Central and Eastern Europe Chair Kataryna Wolczuk Speakers Tim Haughton (CREES) lsquoWhen Where and How Does the European Union Make a Difference Conditionality Accession and Membership in CEErsquo Lara Scarpitta (CREES) lsquoRomaniarsquos Accession to the EU Problems and Challengesrsquo Berndt Rechel (CREES) lsquoThe ldquoMyth of Conditionalityrdquo the EUrsquos Limited Impact on Minority Rights in Bulgariarsquo Putinrsquos Presidency and Beyond Chair Tim Haughton Speakers Richard Sakwa lsquoThe Yukos Affair Russian Energy Policy and the Factionalisation of the Putin Presidencyrsquo

33 Edwin Bacon Putinrsquos Ideology Julian Cooper Putinrsquos Succession Matthew Frear lsquoExplaining the Phenomenon of Lukashenka in Post-Communist Belarusrsquo Interethnic Relations in the Balkans Chair Elizabeth Edginton Speakers Jelena Obradovic lsquoKosovo A Serbian Viewrsquo Odeta Barbullushi lsquoPublic Discourse in Albania on Kosovorsquos Final Statusrsquo Lara Scarpitta lsquoRomaniarsquos Relations with Moldovarsquo Russia in the World Economy Changing Patterns of Trade and Competitiveness Minoru Yasuda lsquoRe-direction of Trade Relations the Case of Russiarsquo Julian Cooper lsquoDoes Russia possess Competitive Commoditiesrsquo Discussant Heiko Fritz

Dissidence in Communist Societies (1953-1991) Chair Jeremy Smith Speakers Robert Hornsby (CREES) lsquoRegime - Dissenter Relations during the Khrushchev Erarsquo Magdalena Skrybant (CREES) lsquoRinging the Changes Dissenting Intellectuals in Poland during the 1970srsquo Mark Sandle (De Montford) lsquoThe Spectrum of Soviet Dissidence from Brezhnev to Gorbachevrsquo

Changing Perspectives Changing Identities Chair Julian Cooper Speakers Beth Edginton lsquoHouse Doctor Conducting Research on the Integration of Polish A-Grade Fonctionnaires in a Changing European Commissionrsquo Anton Popov lsquoCrossing Borders Shifting Identities Transnationalisation Materialisation and Commoditisation of Greek Ethnicity in Post-Soviet Russiarsquo Jelena Obradovic lsquoWar Criminals Identity and Serbian Politics of Mythrsquo Ivan Gololobov lsquoRural Identities in Contemporary Russiarsquo Regional Issues in Russia Speakers Elena Denezhkina lsquoOrganised Crime and Multi-Level Governance in the Uralsrsquo Elizabeth Teague lsquoRegional Mergers in the Russian Federationrsquo Fikret Radjbov lsquoIntegration or Dis-integration Dagestan and Russian Federalismrsquo Adrian Campbell lsquoVertical or Triangle State and Local Government in the Russian Federation TRAVEL AND VISITS Visits by Centre Staff Associate and Honorary Members Between 4th and 12th April 2006 Mr Edwynn Graystone participated in a postgraduate fact-finding trip to the Moscow archives in a group organised by BASEES and led by Dr Jeremy Smith Professor Hanson visited the Institute for the Economy in Transition to participate in the Institutersquos tenth anniversary conference in March 2006 and in June he travelled to Warsaw Budapest to carry out interviews with policy-makers on EU influence on economic institutions he also visited the European Commission to interview officials on the same topic during July and August Dr Haughton travelled to Slovakia to follow the election campaign and to carry out research in the Department of Political Science Comenius University Bratislava

34 Dr Ilič visited Stockholm in November for meetings with AHRC project consultants and in June she travelled to Moscow to work in archives and libraries Dr Shaw undertook fieldwork in connection with the British Academy project on cultural landscape as a heritage feature in August visiting Kenozero national park and Borodino battlefield Visitors to the Centre Professor Zdzislaw Mach 2425 November 2005 Brigita Schmognerova Former Slovak Finance Minister and Vice-President of the EBRD 26 January 2006 PRIZES AWARDED TO STUDENTS The Elisabeth Koutaissoff prize for the best first year undergraduate with Russian was won by Louise Watkins and for the best first year undergraduate ab initio Russian was won by Max Lahiff The Baykov Prize for the best second year undergraduate with Russian was awarded to Darya Syrpis and for the best second year undergraduate ab initio Russian was awarded to Jennifer Calvert The Konovalov prize for the best final year student was awarded to Kieran Leahy The Grayson Prize for the best first year postgraduate students was awarded to Matthew Frear APPOINTMENTS AND PERSONALIA Dr Edginton left the ERI in September 2005 to train as a Child Psychotherapist Dr Haughton was promoted to Senior Lecturer from 1 October 2006 Dr Smith was promoted to Senior Lecturer in Russian History with effect from September 2005 from September 2005 to March 2006 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki We were pleased to welcome Julie Elkner as temporary lecturer during Dr Smithrsquos leave of absence Dr Oldfield was appointed senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow from January 2007 From September 2006 Dr Holtom will be a researcher on SIPRIrsquos Arms Transfers Project Dr Richardson has now moved to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and works for the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies


Deputy Director

Professor of Central South-East European Politics

Honorary Professor

INTRODUCTION

CONFERENCES AND EXTERNAL PRESENTATIONS

In Birmingham

Elsewhere in UK

Overseas

BOARDS AND COMMITTEES

Honorary Senior Research Fellows

Honorary Research Fellows

RESEARCH

History

Economics

Science Technology and Industry

Politics and Security Studies

Sociology and Cultural Studies

Geography

Russian Language Literature and Music

EXTERNAL GRANTS

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Articles published by Members Associate Members and Honorary

Research Staff of the Centre

Birmingham Slavonic Monographs

Palgrave-CREES Series Studies in Russian and East European History and Society

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Completed

In Preparation

SEMINARS

The Birmingham Russian History Seminars

Tony Heywood (Bradford) lsquoA ldquoFree Soviet Citizen Abroadrdquo Engineer Iu V Lomonosov in Europe and North America 1927-52rsquo

Current Affairs Seminar

ERI Graduate Seminar Series

Russian Films

Russian Television

OTHER PUBLIC OUTPUT

ANNUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE

TRAVEL AND VISITS

Visits by Centre Staff Associate and Honorary Members

PRIZES AWARDED TO STUDENTS

APPOINTMENTS AND PERSONALIA

2

CENTRE FOR RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES Director Professor of Russian Economic Studies JM Cooper BScEcon (Bath) PhD

Deputy Director Kataryna Wolczuk MLaw (Gdansk) MSocSc PhD Ukrainian Studies

Professor of Central South-East European Politics Judy Batt BSocSc PhD Central and East European Politics (leave of absence from September 2003) Senior Fellow and Emeritus Professor RW Davies BA (Lond) PhD Emeritus Professor of the Political Economy of Russia and Eastern Europe P Hanson MA (Cantab) PhD Emeritus Professor of Russian History Maureen P Perrie MA (Edin) MA (part-time) Reader in Soviet and Russian History Dr Deema Kaneff PhD Adelaide (from August 2007) EA Rees BA York PhD History (on leave of absence from September 1999 Professor European University Institute Florence) Senior Lecturers TJ Haughton BSc (Econ) (Lond) MA (Lond) Dip (Westminster) PhD (Lond) Politics of Central and Eastern Europe JR Smith BA (Oxon) MA (Lond) PhD (Lond) Twentieth Century Russian History Lecturers Tanya Lipatova BA (St Petersburg) MA (St Petersburg) Tutor in Russian Language JB Morris BA (Lancaster) MA (Lond) PhD (Sussex) (from September 2005) Dr Natasha Rulyova DJ White BA (Wolverhampton) MA PhD Russian Politics Jelena Williams-Pozdnjakova BA (Tartu Estonia) MA (Tartu Estonia) Dip (Moscow Pushkin Institute) City amp Guilds 9284 ESOL Tutor in Russian Language Part-Time Visiting Lecturers Mariola Senior Research Fellow DL Averre BA (Manchester) PhD (Manchester) Galina M Yemelianova MA (Moscow) PhD (Moscow) Research Fellows N Copsey BA (Hons) (Oxon) MA (College of Europe) DPhil (Sussex) (from April 2007) Melanie J Ilič BA (Manchester) MPhil PhD (part-time) Dr A Titov PhD (Lond) (from October 2005)




4 CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ____________________________________________________ 5




EXTERNAL GRANTS _______________________________________________ 20









































































































































































































Deputy Director


Honorary Professor

INTRODUCTION


In Birmingham

Elsewhere in UK

Overseas




RESEARCH

History

Economics




Geography


EXTERNAL GRANTS

PUBLICATIONS






Completed

In Preparation

SEMINARS





Russian Films

Russian Television

OTHER PUBLIC OUTPUT


TRAVEL AND VISITS







4 CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ____________________________________________________ 5




EXTERNAL GRANTS _______________________________________________ 20









































































































































































































Deputy Director


Honorary Professor

INTRODUCTION


In Birmingham

Elsewhere in UK

Overseas




RESEARCH

History

Economics




Geography


EXTERNAL GRANTS

PUBLICATIONS






Completed

In Preparation

SEMINARS





Russian Films

Russian Television

OTHER PUBLIC OUTPUT


TRAVEL AND VISITS




































































































































































































Deputy Director


Honorary Professor

INTRODUCTION


In Birmingham

Elsewhere in UK

Overseas




RESEARCH

History

Economics




Geography


EXTERNAL GRANTS

PUBLICATIONS






Completed

In Preparation

SEMINARS





Russian Films

Russian Television

OTHER PUBLIC OUTPUT


TRAVEL AND VISITS




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